Legal engine swaps?

Clare Snyder clsnyder at ibm.net
Wed Oct 8 01:59:09 GMT 1997


>>Pre SB42 which is sitting on Guv Petes Desk rules are simple
>>
>>65 and later only
>
> ... snip
>
>>If the engine is newer than the body year, it must have ALL the smog
equipment 
>>and meet the smog standards of the engine year. This includes cats,
evaporative 
>>canisters, transmission etc.
>
>this confuses me ... you mean that the only way to repair an engine
>is to rebuild one ??  you can't buy a new one to replace the worn
>out one ??  This would seem to be counter-productive to pollution
>goals .... a new engine would most certainly be expected to work
>better (pollution-wise) than an older one ????
>
>Tom Cloud
>
>   Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have any film
>                                  8^)
>
Mines photographic - lots of film, but it isn't polaroid and hasn't
developed yet ;}




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